Yet sporting teams operate in exactly the same way, everyone in the team shares the score the team as a whole has achieved.
You are confusing selfishness (everyman for themselves) with working together for a common goal as sporting teams do.
"Team Australia"
Myth of the socialist classroom experiment
For over fifteen years, a story about a professor’s
classroom experiment of ‘socialising’ grades has been circulating around the globe in various forms, and mostly recently as a chain email. The story apparently shows that ‘
social loafing’ is inevitable in a society where rewards are averaged for a group, rather than efforts rewarded individually.
Taken to its conclusion, such a finding would presumably demonstrate that team sports could never be competitive, since each player gets the same result as the rest of the team regardless of how much effort they put in.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/12/myth-of-the-socialist-classroom-experiment/
